University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.
Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2012 May;21(2):124-39. doi: 10.1044/1058-0360(2011/11-0009). Epub 2012 Jan 9.
This study examined whether experienced speech-language pathologists (SLPs) differ from inexperienced people in their perception of phonetic detail in children's speech.
Twenty-one experienced SLPs and 21 inexperienced listeners participated in a series of tasks in which they used a visual-analog scale (VAS) to rate children's natural productions of target /s/-/θ/, /t/-/k/, and /d/-// in word-initial position. Listeners rated the perceived distance between individual productions and ideal productions.
The experienced listeners' ratings differed from the inexperienced listeners' ratings in four ways: They had higher intrarater reliability, showed less bias toward a more frequent sound, and were more closely related to the acoustic characteristics of the children's speech. In addition, the experienced listeners' responses were related to a different set of predictor variables.
Results suggest that experience working as an SLP leads to better perception of phonetic detail in children's speech. Limitations and future research are discussed.
本研究考察了经验丰富的言语语言病理学家(SLP)与缺乏经验的人在感知儿童言语中的语音细节方面是否存在差异。
21 名经验丰富的 SLP 和 21 名缺乏经验的听众参与了一系列任务,他们使用视觉模拟量表(VAS)对儿童在单词起始位置自然发出的目标音 /s/-/θ/、/t/-/k/和 /d/-//进行评级。听众根据感知到的个体发音与理想发音之间的距离进行评分。
在四个方面,有经验的听众的评分与缺乏经验的听众的评分存在差异:他们具有更高的组内可靠性,对更常见的声音表现出更小的偏差,并且与儿童言语的声学特征更为相关。此外,有经验的听众的反应与一组不同的预测变量相关。
研究结果表明,作为 SLP 的工作经验会导致更好地感知儿童言语中的语音细节。讨论了局限性和未来的研究。